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I am twenty-six years old as I write these words and sometimes it still creeps up on me, although eight years have passed. I find myself in the bathroom staring the scale. I tap it with my right toe, and it lights up, inviting me to step on it. I...
5th July 2011
Striking a balance
In the news this week it was reported that we look after our homes a great deal more than we look after our bodies.
I agree, and I would add that we tend to pay more attention to our bodies than we do to our minds.
Back in...
22nd July 2011
Can having an obese child be termed child-abuse?
I have just finished writing a report about a family which is having four children removed into care as a result of the parents failing to help them to lose weight. The link to this report...
5th September 2011
My eating disorder sort of crept up on me, and if I have to be honest, I didn’t realise I had one until it had really taken hold. In 2003 I was living a “normal” life, job, mortgage and recently married. I...
15th September 2011
PART I
Flashback: 11 years ago. I am sitting in the tub, the water is hot and turns my skin red, it hurts. But I believe it should. I believe I deserve it. I get out of the bath and dry myself off. I take off my necklace and earrings...
5th November 2011
I am in the grip of anxiety.
It's my own fault. The trouble with this Borderline stuff is that I can always be relied upon to come up with the biggest, most grandiose solution to a problem. And then I'll loathe myself for it. Putting my...
22nd November 2011
Is there anyone in the world with a healthy body image? Is there anyone that is truly and honestly fine, content and accepting of every aspect of their physical appearance? I’ve certainly never met them – and I’m talking about...
12th January 2012
As a child, I began experiencing what I now know to be compulsive eating, which would manifest as an emotional response.
At meal times, I had a compulsion to eat until I was physically uncomfortable (which sounds unbelievably vulgar to me even now,...
18th June 2012
If you long to find a way to lift your spirits, to get in touch with your inner sanctuary and find your real destiny, then read on.
Take a morning or evening, or a day at the weekend to try these ways of making your inner star sparkle. You will be...
16th August 2012
It's World Mental health Day, and today I want to say a BIG THANK YOU!
To my fish I forgot to feed, to my neighbour I ignored, to my teacher I flipped the finger, to my mum who bound my scars... Thank you.
To the man in the petrol station I...
10th October 2012
I advocate replacing birthdays with wisedays. Why the devil not? They do in some cultures, so why not here?
I’m grumpy about the way getting older is frowned upon; making wrinkles even more firmly entrenched, by the brainwashing media....
5th March 2013
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